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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated(...)
Badlands : new horizons in landscape
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The artist's relationship to landscape was once invoked by a canvas on an easel in a picturesque vista. No more. In the 1960s, the Earth Artists started focusing on natural systems and entropy; in the 1970s, photographers in the New Topographics movement turned their attention unsentimentally to the industrialized "man-altered" environment; in the 1980s, artists animated the natural landscape with art, movement, and performance; and in the 1990s, Eco-Artists collaborated with scientists to address sustainability, pollution, and politics. "Badlands" explores the latest manifestations of artists’ fascination with the earth, gathering work by contemporary artists who approach landscape through history, culture, and science. "Badlands", which accompanies an exhibition at MASS MoCA, approaches landscape as a theme with variations, grouping artists and their art (which is shown in 150 color illustrations) by category : Historians, who recontextualize the history of landscape depiction; Explorers, who explore the environment and our place within it; Activists and Pragmatists, who alert us to problems in the natural world and suggest solutions; and the Aestheticists, who look at the beauty found in nature. Each section begins with an essay : Gregory Volk maps the evolution of the genre from the Hudson River School to Earth Art; Ginger Strand examines the relationship between man and landscape through our cultural history; Tensie Whelan discusses environmental science, sustainability, and climate change; and Denise Markonish considers the new genre of landscape that emerges from the work displayed in Badlands. As a physical object, Badlands supports the values represented by its intellectual and artistic content: it was produced using FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified techniques including paper, printing, and inks. Artists: Robert Adams, Vaughn Bell, Boyle Family, Melissa Brown, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Leila Daw, Gregory Euclide, J. Henry Fair, Mike Glier, Anthony Goicolea, Marine Hugonnier, Paul Jacobsen, Mitchell Joachim/ Terreform, Nina Katchadourian, Jane Marsching, Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Smolinski, Yutaka Sone, Jennifer Steinkamp, Mary Temple. Copublished with MASS MoCA
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"Nature Over Again" reveals the story behind the majority of Finlay's renowned garden installations, and is the first study to examine his garden designs and 'interventions' in a consequential way. An accomplished Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, Finlay infused his garden designs with a distinct aesthetic philosophy and poetic sensibility.John Dixon Hunt(...)
Nature over again: the garden art of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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"Nature Over Again" reveals the story behind the majority of Finlay's renowned garden installations, and is the first study to examine his garden designs and 'interventions' in a consequential way. An accomplished Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, Finlay infused his garden designs with a distinct aesthetic philosophy and poetic sensibility.John Dixon Hunt situates his analysis of Finlay's gardens in the context of that broader philosophy and poetic work, drawing on Finlay's books, prints and other written reflections about the art and practice of garden design. From the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart to the Serpentine Gallery in London to the University of California at San Diego campus, the book documents how Finlay built an oeuvre of international renown, and ultimately argues that Finlay's innovations are best understood in the context of the long tradition of European gardens.
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations(...)
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January 1900, Paris
Les jardins du commerce équitable
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Le commerce équitable s'est illustré, ces dernières années, comme une possible réponse aux inégalités dans les échanges entre le Nord et le Sud. Le succès du commerce équitable a révélé les consommateurs des pays développés y étaient sensibles et étaient conscients des nouveaux défis apparus avec la mondialisation. Comment répondre aux besoins alimentaires des populations et dans le même temps conserver les espaces naturels, protéger la biodiversité, faire face aux enjeux écologiques liés au développement industriel et à l'urbanisation... En y associant les populations paysannes héritières de savoirs et de savoir-faire respectueux des équilibres écologiques, répond le commerce équitable. Car l'agriculture paysanne est, par son histoire, porteuse d'une gestion des territoires qui fonde la diversité agricole, alimentaire et, ce faisant, humaine de notre planète. Ce livre permet de découvrir le terrain où s'exerce chaque jour les effets du commerce équitable, ces jardins du monde où sont cultivés les produits, cacao, café, thé, sucre, fruits, épices, riz, fonio, quinoa... par des groupements de petits producteurs. Ce livre est une illustration de la richesse, de la beauté, de la diversité et aussi de la fragilité d'un monde qu'il s'agit de préserver.
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The first two sections of the book focus on the city-planning development potential of the Rhine riverbank, particularly in the Cologne/Bonn region. The extensive third section contains a collection of ninety example projects from throughout Europe.
Riverscapes: designing urban embankments
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The first two sections of the book focus on the city-planning development potential of the Rhine riverbank, particularly in the Cologne/Bonn region. The extensive third section contains a collection of ninety example projects from throughout Europe.
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This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involoved in composing landscapes. Topics range from architectural details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas,(...)
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November 2008, Basel, Boston, Berlin
Composing landscapes: analysis, typology and experiments for design
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This book presents an extensive typology of possible approaches to working with the site. With more than three hundred landscape designs from every time and place, it systematically presents the methods that underpin the processes involoved in composing landscapes. Topics range from architectural details to gardens all the way to cityscapes and cultivated areas, including New York's Central Park, sixteenth and seventeenth century Italian gardens, and Seine landscapes in Paris.
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Shanghai: new botanic garden
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To propose a botanical garden in one of the world's most rapidly expanding cities is of course a gesture that invokes ecological issues regarding sustainability and the conservation of plant life. The German landscape architect's planning group Valentien intend the garden that they are constructing, for Chenshan (Hill Chen) in the Song Jiang District of Shanghai (just(...)
Shanghai: new botanic garden
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To propose a botanical garden in one of the world's most rapidly expanding cities is of course a gesture that invokes ecological issues regarding sustainability and the conservation of plant life. The German landscape architect's planning group Valentien intend the garden that they are constructing, for Chenshan (Hill Chen) in the Song Jiang District of Shanghai (just outside the city center), to be such a gesture, as well as a model of plant conservation and scientific research development-and one of Shanghai's most ambitious landmarks. The project is enormous, and informed throughout by the architects' ecological imperatives: Energy-saving technologies are to be utilized in the garden's buildings (greenhouses, laboratories and education center) and renewable materials will be deployed throughout.
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This amply footnoted collection of black-and-white photographs and texts by the German artist Andrea Geyer investigates and deconstructs the histories of several Native American tribes. Essayist Janet Catherine Berlo writes, "The pleasure of this work resembles the pleasure of travel through an unfamiliar landscape : sometimes arduous, and often filled with surprise and(...)
Andrea Geyer / spiral lands / chapter 1
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This amply footnoted collection of black-and-white photographs and texts by the German artist Andrea Geyer investigates and deconstructs the histories of several Native American tribes. Essayist Janet Catherine Berlo writes, "The pleasure of this work resembles the pleasure of travel through an unfamiliar landscape : sometimes arduous, and often filled with surprise and ephiphany."
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
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February 2008, San Antonio
Yosemite in time: ice ages, tree clocks, ghost rivers
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These photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed, or not, over time.
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Avant Gardeners presents the fifty most exciting and innovative contemporary garden - and landscape-design practices from around the world, profiling the work of each designer through informative texts, photographs and plans. Topical essays explore the underlying principles of these highly individual approaches, and show how a new generation has rejected the naturalistic(...)
Avant gardeners: 50 visionaries of the contemporary landscape
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Avant Gardeners presents the fifty most exciting and innovative contemporary garden - and landscape-design practices from around the world, profiling the work of each designer through informative texts, photographs and plans. Topical essays explore the underlying principles of these highly individual approaches, and show how a new generation has rejected the naturalistic tradition of Western garden design, favoring instead the inluences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art and Land Art. Tim Richardson, one of the world's leading garden and landscape critics, bring a broad base of knowledge and an engaging style to the subject. With over 100 projects, the book is an encyclopaedic look at the most advanced contemporary thinking in garden design and offers a rich and and inspirational archive for both professionals and enthusiasts - indeed for anyone who delights in the great outdoors.
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S’appuyant sur un recensement complet des fontaines de la région PACA, cet ouvrage propose de promener le lecteur à travers toute la Provence, mais aussi le Comtat- Venaissin, le Dauphiné, le comté de Nice et la principauté de Monaco pour lui faire découvrir les merveilleuses fontaines qui ont été édifiées au cours des siècles. On peut ainsi suivre leur évolution(...)
Fontaines de Provence et de Côte d'Azur
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S’appuyant sur un recensement complet des fontaines de la région PACA, cet ouvrage propose de promener le lecteur à travers toute la Provence, mais aussi le Comtat- Venaissin, le Dauphiné, le comté de Nice et la principauté de Monaco pour lui faire découvrir les merveilleuses fontaines qui ont été édifiées au cours des siècles. On peut ainsi suivre leur évolution depuis le Moyen Âge jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine et découvrir l’affirmation de formes régionales ainsi que la manière dont ces formes se sont diffusées, autour de certaines villes ou le long de certains axes de circulation. Les nombreuses illustrations montrent la richesse d’un patrimoine souvent oublié ou du moins délaissé, depuis les fontaines rustiques qui se cachent au pied des villages, seul point d’eau où venaient s’approvisionner hommes et bêtes, jusqu’aux fontaines de prestige dont la diversité est telle qu’il n’y en a pas deux qui soient identiques. Panorama complet, superbement illustré, des fontaines de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur qui nous entraîne aussi bien dans les grandes villes que dans les petits villages.
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